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Rising Temperatures Will Help Mosquitos Infect a Billion More People
Rising Temperatures Will Help Mosquitos Infect a Billion More People Mosquitoes are unrelenting killers. In fact, they are among the most lethal animals in the world. When they carry dangerous viruses or other organisms, a bite can be unforgiving. They cause millions of deaths every year from such infectious diseases as malaria, dengue, Zika, chikungunya, yellow feverand at least a dozen more. […]
‘Most Destructive Pathogen Ever’ Has Created Zombie-Like Apocalypse for World’s Amphibians
‘Most Destructive Pathogen Ever’ Has Created Zombie-Like Apocalypse for World’s Amphibians “If it were a human pathogen, it’d be in a zombie film.” A fungal disease which humans have helped to spread among amphibians has led to the decline of 500 species over the past 50 years. (Photo: Centophobia/Flickr/cc) A terrifying new study details the […]
The day the Earth’s climate went berserk
The day the Earth’s climate went berserk The caldera (collapsed crater) of Mt Tambora. Image: By Jialiang Gao (peace-on-earth.org), via Wikimedia Commons. The day in 1815 when the world’s climate went berserk was only the start of months and years of global climate disruption and social unrest. LONDON, 19 March, 2019 − If you had been in […]
Food for a small planet
Food for a small planet What do people eat across the world? An excellent photographic answer to this question was provided by Californian photographer Peter Menzel who visited 24 countries for the book “Hungry Planet” . The thing I found most interesting from his photographs was the difference in the percentage of whole food vs. processed food […]
The Places in America that Use the Most (and Least) Pesticides
The Places in America that Use the Most (and Least) Pesticides With the recent second verdict where a jury ruled that Roundup weedkiller contributed to a man’s cancer, controversial pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are once again in the news. These chemicals, particularly the herbicide glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) have long played a role in American […]
“At First We Didn’t Believe It”: Fast-Melting Greenland Glacier Starts Growing Again In Massive U-Turn
“At First We Didn’t Believe It”: Fast-Melting Greenland Glacier Starts Growing Again In Massive U-Turn A large and fast-melting glacier in Greenland is growing again, according to a new NASA study. The Jakobshavn (YA-cob-shawv-en) glacier on Greenland’s west coast had reportedly been retreating by around 1.8 miles and thinning by nearly 130 feet annually in 2012. May […]
The Promise of the Green New Deal
The Promise of the Green New Deal I also want to mildly praise the resolution’s anti-incrementalism — because there are virtues in trying to offer not just a technical blueprint but a comprehensive vision of the good society, and virtues as well in insisting that dramatic change is still possible in America, that grand projects […]
The Planet of the Cows
The Planet of the Cows Five years ago my wife, Ann-Helen, and I bought this small farm, Sunnansjö, in Sweden, some 30 km east of Uppsala. I have all my life been keen on growing vegetables and lately my interest has been more into trees and perennial plants. So the main idea was to use […]
“As Many As A Million Calves Lost In Nebraska” – Beef Prices In The U.S. To Escalate Dramatically In The Coming Months
“As Many As A Million Calves Lost In Nebraska” – Beef Prices In The U.S. To Escalate Dramatically In The Coming Months According to Agriculture Secretary Sunny Purdue, there “may be as many as a million calves lost in Nebraska” due to the catastrophic flooding that has hit the state. This is not a rumor, […]
Your Plans For Revolution Don’t Work. Nothing We’ve Tried Works.
Your Plans For Revolution Don’t Work. Nothing We’ve Tried Works. All the old ideas for uprooting the status quo have failed. I point this out not to depress people, but to persuade them to stop twisting on locked doorknobs. The old ideas don’t work, so we need new ones. The political process has failed. Capitalism has […]
Bayer Loses Second Roundup Glyphosate Trial; Ordered To Pay $80 Million
Bayer Loses Second Roundup Glyphosate Trial; Ordered To Pay $80 Million Bayer AG has lost a second trial over claims that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer – and has been ordered by a San Fancisco jury to pay compensatory damages of $5.3 million and punitive damages of $75 million to a 70-year-old California man, Edwin Hardeman, who […]
Deconstructing the 3 biggest LIES that attack organic farming
Deconstructing the 3 biggest LIES that attack organic farming (Natural News) Oh yes they did. There’s now a so-called “study” that’s been done which supposedly determined that organic farming creates a much bigger carbon footprint that torques up “global warming” more than ever. Yes, old faithful US News has regurgitated a chunk of claims published in the International […]
New Jersey is Making Companies Pay for Toxic Contamination–Shining a New Light on a Little-Known Offender
Illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept NEW JERSEY IS MAKING COMPANIES PAY FOR TOXIC CONTAMINATION — SHINING A NEW LIGHT ON A LITTLE-KNOWN OFFENDER NEW JERSEY LAID financial responsibility for dealing with PFAS contamination squarely at the feet of the chemical companies responsible for it. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection issued a directive on Monday ordering five companies to pay the […]
Oil Industry Ponders Getting ‘Dragged into Low-Carbon Future’ While Claiming it ‘Stepped up’ on Climate
Oil Industry Ponders Getting ‘Dragged into Low-Carbon Future’ While Claiming it ‘Stepped up’ on Climate The fossil fuel industry’s faith that the modern world economy will be powered by its products for the indefinite future is usually unwavering. But cracks in that faith recently appeared in Houston at the top annual oil industry conference, known as CERAweek. The […]
Ecological Civilization: Could China Become a Model for Saving the Earth?
Ecological Civilization: Could China Become a Model for Saving the Earth? Peasant and industrialized agriculture facing each other — in China. Painting gifted to me by Ye Jingzhong, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. Photo: E.G. Vallianatos. Industrialized agriculture is threatening humanity with catastrophe. It feeds global warming and dissolves societies. In addition, its pesticides contaminate […]
